apparently, i am famous. i have discovered today that a celebrity website apparently thinks that this is the blog of the australian actress, natalie blair. imagine my surprise, when i went to look at the links of how people find my blog, to find that someone came here from a natalie blair (not yours truly, of course) fan site. i find this more amusing than one could possibly imagine.
this is not the first time someone has gotten us mixed up... (sorry, but i have to provide a little bit of back-story in order to tell this tale... please bear with me for a few lines)
up until i was 15, i went to school in riyadh, saudi arabia... at the time i left riyadh to go to boarding school, most of my friends and i didn't have email addresses and most of us did not have a permanent address to speak of (lots of military kids and lots of people who simply move a lot). a few years ago, one of my former classmates created a message board to allow all of the sais-r (saudi arabian international school - riyadh, now called the american international school - riyadh) kids from the 90's to get back in touch with one-another. one of my very good friends asked if anyone had seen or heard from the natalie blair who left sais-r in 1998 (as i had apparently dropped off the face of the earth for about 7 years or so). one of the people from my class (who had seen me every day for about 7 years) said that i was now, apparently, a very successful young actress on australian tv... and that i was looking very good. ... when i was directed to the page by a friend, i laughed so hard, i had trouble breathing (mainly because i am not australian, i have never been to australia - not yet, at least- , i am not an actress - though that would also be cool- , she is younger than me, and we look nothing alike ... i should be so lucky so be so tall and thin and blah blah blah).
anyway, i have pointed out the error to the website and i hope that the fans of the australian actress who shares my name will not be disappointed to find out that this is not her blog. i am just a regular-non-famous-girl who likes to rant about random shit on the internet...
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about me
- natalie blair
- i love to travel as much as possible to as many places as i can - without exception. i am a designer, painter, singer, writer, photographer, knitter, reader, helper, watcher... and i prefer to think of myself as more of a lover than a fighter (though, i am not afraid to bring the pain if necessary). my family and friends are the most important things in my life.
things i write
things i am doing
things i read
things to see and do
- A BLACK BIKE
- barsuk records
- better living through design
- blurb
- busted tees
- dogeared
- Domino
- dwell
- dwell studio
- flaunt
- GOOD
- madeline kahn genius!
- mcsweeney's internet tendency
- powell's books
- russell + hazel
- SeatGuru
- stolen good(ie)s
- terra
- the mandate press
- the new york times
- the selby
- tripkick
- u.s. green building council
barack the vote
be nice.
i like to boogie.
2 comments:
i love your blog! i'm glad i've found you. my dad lived in stuttgart for two years -- in an apartment in a little pink house up on a hill so he had a view of the city. it was so nice. every morning you'd hear the church bells.
and i love that you call yourself a "watcher." isnt' that a "flaneur," in french -- someone who walks around the city, just observing life? so nice....
xoxo
thank you, thank you! i'm so glad to be found!!! i heart your blog so very much. one of the things that made me fall in love with this city were the church bells... i also live in a house on the hill and there are 4 churches within earshot of our place... it's funny, but the sound of church bells is so comforting to me (kind of like prayer call in saudi).
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